The Obama Presidential Center is a "center" not a library, Obama privatized the archive and does not allow the National Archives and Records Admin to run it.
An oldie to be sure, but following Obama's X post on the "center" opening in June 2026. I found this oddity, I was repeatedly told by every Lumper here that everything the President did was National Archive material, for the public good? Whats with this?
BTW: love how NYT avoids calling it what it is, this is another example of equivocation.
... everything the President did was National Archive material, for the public good? Whats with this? ...
Now that Pres Trump controls the National Archives, my guess woyuld be that any records of the Obama era would likely be disappeared.
Trump's Hostile Takeover of the National Archives -- and Our Nation's History (March 2025)
americanoversight.org
... As President Trump goes after the institutions and offices designed to hold him in check, nothing is safe from his administration's rampage through the federal government -- not even the nonpolitical, nonpartisan National Archives and Records Administration.
The National Archives (NARA) has been a primary target of Trump's retribution tour, having been at the center of the criminal case against Trump for his alleged mishandling of classified documents when he left office in 2021.
When he returned to the White House in January 2025, he wasted little time in purging NARA's top leadership to make room for loyal officials more likely to do his bidding " or even to turn a blind eye to future legal violations, including of the Presidential Records Act.
At stake isn't just the preservation of government documents, but also our nation's historical record remaining free from partisan political interference. ...
The Barack Obama Presidential Library is the 14th Presidential library administered by the National Archives and Records Administration (NARA), a federal agency. Unlike other Presidential Libraries administered by NARA, the Obama Presidential Library is the first fully digital Presidential library. An estimated 95 percent of the Presidential records of the Obama administration were born digital, such as photos, videos, word-processing documents, tweets, emails, and other standard digital formats. NARA also received approximately 30 million pages of unclassified paper Presidential records.www.obamalibrary.gov
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